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Fans Are Calling Marcus The Mystic Pig A Fraud After Last Night's Result

Daisy Jackson

Last updated 2:40 PM, Monday February 24 2020 GMT

It's one of the weirdest (and best) traditions of big football tournaments - getting random animals across the country to pick the winning team.

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One of the best ones this year was Marcus the Mystic Pig, who was the animal of choice for ITV's This Morning.

Yesterday, he veered straight to the apples marked with an England flag, barely even glancing at the Croation apples.

(We all pretended we couldn't see that the pig had clearly been pointed in the direction of the England pile and he's obviously going to take the easiest route to food. We all also ignored that the England pile was bigger).

While Holly Willoughby and Phil Schofield celebrated loudly at the time, it turns out Marcus the Mystic Pig is a liar and a fraud.

Damnit.

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People are kicking off at the poor pig on Twitter this morning - we trusted you, Marcus.

Daisy Jackson

Daisy Jackson is a freelance writer, who has previously worked at Shortlist Media and Trinity Mirror. She has written about the Manchester terror attacks and appeared on BBC Five live to discuss the aftermath, as well as interviewing an orthopaedic surgeon in Syria.